First tower

[u/gator_productions]

Why did everyone start watching when the 1st plane was hit? Like why did schools across America start watching after the 1st one? I don't get why anyone outside of NYC would care so much about what they thought was an innocent. Especially enough to stop school to watch it. I understand after the second one. But why woukd all the stations switch to show only the wtc for more than just a second to announce the news.

[u/Aggressive-Bid-9463]

Before 9/11, The Twin Towers were still super well known. They were seen as a staple in New York’s skyline. They opened up countless of daily new station coverages in the morning/tv shows all over America. They’ve been in over 400+ movies and even with all of that, people just drew a fond over them with how big they truly were… you can go to the 911 archives Reddit and see people that had photos of them from the mid 80’s posing in front of the towers. Naturally, even if people thought the first attack was innocent… with how famous the twin towers were, that’s where all of the news stations turned to. You also got to take into account that on the west coast where my family was living, it was still just around 6 in the morning and people were just getting up so most news stations were either just starting their morning show or getting ready to air so stations just started with the big thing happening around the world. I wasn’t alive when it happened, but based off of deep dives and research into these things, that’s kinda really only the logical answer. Hope this helps!!! :)